Начало > Новини

The Totalitarianisms of the 20th Century in Comparative Perspective

CAS 02/11/2009

FORUM SERIES “SOFIA DIALOGUES”

14th Anniversary of the forum (1996-2009)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

honouring Claude Lefort

The Totalitarianisms of the 20th Century in Comparative Perspective Do New Realities Challenge Traditional Conceptions?

November 28 – 29, 2009
Sofia, Hotel “Arena di Serdica”

Saturday, November 28, 2009

9.30-10.00 Opening of the conference: Prof. Ivaylo Znepolski – Head of the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (MSHS)

(Due to health problems Claude Lefort is not able to attend the conference. His opening address will be presented to the audience.)

Thematic Session: TOTALITARIANISM AND TOTALITARIAN THEORY: A PARALEL START
Moderator: Maurice Aymard

10.00-10.30 Antonio Elorza (Madrid) - Totalitarianism and Totalism

10.30-11.00 Bernard Bruneteau (Grenoble) - Towards the Origins of the Totalitarian Theory: the Anticipations of the 30-ies

11.00-11.30 Discussion

11.30-12.00 Nikita Petrov (Moscow) - Soviet KGB Archives in the Contemporary Political Struggle

12.00-12.30 Stephane Courtois (Paris) - The Opening of the Communist Archives and the Concept of Totalitarianism

12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch

Thematic Session: THE TOTALITARIANISMS IN EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE DEATH OF STALIN (Part I)
Moderator: Mark Kramer

14.30-15.00 Ivaylo Znepolski (Sofia) - “Real Socialism” – A Challenge to Totalitarian Theory?

15.00-15.30 Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg) - “Everyone believes the state does everything for him/her”. Notes on State-Society Relations in Communist Bulgaria

15.30-16.00 Thomas Lindenberger (Vienna) - Is the State Absorbing Society or Society Absorbing the State? Everyday Life under East German Dictatorship

16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 Jan Holzer (Prague) - The Definitions of Totalitarianism in Accordance to the Czechoslovak/Czech Situation

17.30-18.00 Victor Neumann (Timishoara) - The Concept of Totalitarianism in the Romanian Social-Political Discourses

18.00-18.30 Discussion

20.00 Dinner hosted by His Excellency Etienne de Poncins, Ambassador of France to Bulgaria



Sunday, November 29, 2009

Thematic Session: THE WAYS OF DE-TOTALITARIZATION
Moderator: Hristo Todorov

9.30-10.00 Pierre Hassner (Paris) - Is Totalitarianism Dead?

10.00-10.30 Dariusz Stola (Warsaw) - The Communist Regime as a Process: ‘People's Poland’: from Imitation to De-totalitarization

10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.00 Maurice Aymard (Paris) - The End of Fascism and the De-totalitarization of the Italian Communist Party

12.00-12.30 Nikos Marantzidis (Thessalonica) - What happened to Greece in the Context of Eastern Europe and the Balkans during the 50-ies

12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch

Thematic Session: THE TOTALITARIANISMS IN EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE DEATH OF STALIN (Part II)
Moderator: Ulf Brunnbauer

14.30-15.00 Mark Kramer (Harvard) - Stalin and the Spread of Soviet-style Systems to Eastern Europe in the mid- to late 1940s.

15.00-15.30 Adam Takacs (Budapest) - The Totalitarianism as Atmosphere: Morality and Mentality under the Kádár Regime in Hungary

15.30-16.00 Discussion
16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.00 Hristo Todorov (Sofia) - “Neither heard nor understood”: Some Aspects of Public Communication in Bulgaria during the 80-iest

17.00-17.30 Alexander Kiossev (Sofia) - Crimes against Everyday Life: Approaching the Patho-Anthropology of Communism

17.30-18.00 Stilian Yotov (Sofia - Frankfurt on Mein)

18.00-18.30 Discussion

18.30-19.00 Concluding words

20.00 Reception

The conference was made possible thanks to the financial support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CEE Trust Bulgaria, Open Society Institute, the French Cultural Institute in Sofia and Goethe Institute in Sofia.


2006 (cc) Creative Commons License. A project of the Centre for Advanced Study, financed by Bulgarian Ministry of Science and Education.
Created by Netage.bg.